Piero della Francesca

The New York Review of Books

Willibald Sauerländer on Piero della Francesca, whose paintings, “invested with so much emotion by modern viewers, are based on a computational foundation of mathematics and solid geometry.”

The Triumph of Piero

Piero is a gripping narrator who never diverts our attention from the main figures and the predominant events. In the depiction of emotional agitation, emphatically recommended by aesthetic theories of the time, Piero is…

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National Gallery

Piero della Francesca was a pioneering mathematician, a master of perspective, and a scholar. Today, his status is comparable with that of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Find out more at this fascinating event:http://bit.ly/1SiEqlq

Are you looking forward to Christmas? If you are in London for the holidays, you can visit us and explore some of the nativity scenes in our collection, such as this one by Piero della Francesca:http://bit.ly/1yGDCKh

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2. Piero della Francesca

   Artist
3. Piero della Francesca was a painter of the Early Renaissance. As testified by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists, to contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Wikipedia
5. Born: 1415, Umbria, Italy
6. Died: October 12, 1492, Sansepolcro, Italy
7. Period: Italian Renaissance